Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-02-26
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The president sent to the house the re-
Spouse of the secretary of state to resolu-
ton of tina. body inquiring as to the action
taken By the department. of state to prote ct
the interests of American citizens whose
property was destroyed by fire, caused by
insurgents at Aspinwall, in 1885. The Sec
rotary says that negotiations were COM
menced in October las; and are now pending
between the United States and Columbia for
the purpose of establishing an International
commission to whom may be referred for
adjustment the claims.
Twenty five thousand of the II, 900 persons
confined in the lails throughout India will
be released as an act of clemency in COM
memoration of jubilees of Queen Victoria.
In selecting prisoners to be liberated special
pains has been taken to show clemency to
females. ALI persons imprisoned for debt
throughout, whose debts are under ITO
rupees, will be liberated. Also in commem-
grafton of the jubilee in these cases the gov
eminent will pay the debts.
Rumors are afoat of impending trouble
The story of the dissatisfaction is that on
Wednesday last circular was sent to each
of the twenty-eight clerks II the freight
Office in Chicago, that salaries would be cut
down 10, Is and 20 per cent. Seven of the
clerks were notified that their services were
no longer required, and three switching
crews. consisting of three. engineers, three
fremen and seven switchmen, were dismiss
ed. The men, it is said, were not "given
their time" or orders on the cashier for the
money due them, but were told to await the
arrival of the pay car. On pay day of the
company the car arrived in the yards, but
the discharged men were told that there
was no money for them, and that they must
get checks for their time. They went to the
cashier in iiorce, and were informed that
they woul6 have to wait until the checks
arrived fr,m Decatur, Illinois, where the
due the men is for their January pay, and
many Of them are in urgent need of funds.
The clerks, not being organized, are power
less, but the switchmen, it is said, threaten
to bring about strike unless their money
is forthcoming at once.
The question asked the Austrian govern
ment in the reichstag in relation to
the proposed credits for military pur-
poses. elected the information that Hungary
would only enroll in the landsturm such
men as had military training, or were likely |
make good soldiers. Numerous exemp- |
tions would be made. In Austria the en-
rollment under the age of AZ years is almost
universal. Elk officers up to GO years will |
also be enrolled. Men only fitted for am
bulance or Office work will not be accepted. |
1t is semi-officially stated that the Austro- |
Hungarian treaty is to continue ten years, |
to be arranged and go into operation in 1888
The police of San Francisco arrested j.
E. Stiles and FL. G. Dean, who are alleged
to be the perpetrators of the recent dyna-
mite outrsges on the Suffer & Geary street |
cable lines. The former was captured while |
on his way to put dynamite on the track.
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owing his house. Shots were fired after
him but none struck him. He was finally
captured by running into the arms of po-
l1ceman from an opposite direction. While
fleeing he was seen to throw something over
the fence into the garden of a residence.
This was recovered and proved to be dyn-
amite bomb ready 70 be placed on the car
track. quantity of dynamite and caps
was also found on his person and materials
for making bombs were later found in his
house. Dean wac suspected by the police
to be implicated in dynamite plots and i'm
mediately after Stiles arrest search was
made in Deans house. No. 50, Fourth
street. Aquantity of dynamite and other
bomb materials was found. Both are strik-
ing car men.
The retail liquor dealers of New York City
had grand demonstration to "protest
against the so-caIled brewers pool, which
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of the retailers, and Also to protest against
the proposed high license and other bills be-
fore the legislature detrimental to our
trade" j. Fitzpatrick, of Troy, president
of the association, presided. Resolutions
were offered proposing boycott against all
the members of the brewers pool and their
produce. Tie intensity of feeling against
the members of the pool is manifest in the ,
impatience with which the dealers await the !
signal to proceed with the boycott. Barney ,,
Kearns, president of the association, led the
van by throwing out Ehret's beer from his
saloon and substituting Everard's at the
same sam time eonspicuSSsly displaying this
down with monopoly" The applications
Immediately multiplied for copies of this
card, and before night it was displayed in
hundreds of saloons on the east side.
The first serious accident from tobogan-
Litcomb & Merrill, by which James q. Bar
rett, leading member of the Rutland bar,
lost his life, and lady named Mrs. Charles
r. Harris received serious and perhaps fatal
injuries. board which formed the port
side of the chute near the bottom became
splintered and displaced SO it projected in
to the slide, pointing upward. The toboggan !
bearing Mr.. Barrett, Mrs. Harris and Mrs. j
Barrett, in the order named, dashed down
the chute. Mrs. Barrett passed the deadly I
projection without touching it, but it struck {
Mrs. Harris on the outside of the thigh and I
cut long, deep cash then it struck Bar
rett on the under andinner side of the thigh;
up through it and his abdomen
and coming out at his back. The force of
the collision was frightful and he was
shocked off the toboggan, but the ladies
went on to the foot of the slide. Barrett I
was completely transfxed by the board, 4
but he did not for q moment lose conscious t
ness, and bore the exoruciating pain with {
fortitude. Medical aid was '
hastily summoned, The doctors etherized +
him, sawed off the board and removed it 6
and then conveyed him to his home. He t
died that night Mrs. Harris is in critical i
condition.
A communication from the director of the 6
mint has been transmitted to the house pro- a
testing agaiast the reductions made in the | I
for the mint service by the appro- I
priatioLs committee. Of the failure of the
committee to provide for the operation of I